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Speaker A: Feeding and clothing the poor is a mistake. Just as nature weeds out unfit members, a capitalist society should be allowed to do the same.
Speaker B: To provide for the common good and protect the people, the government should pass laws to prevent the sale of alcohol.
Speaker C: To promote economic growth, the government should expand US markets overseas.
Speaker D: Since transportation is a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the public interest.
Which third party held beliefs most similar to those expressed by Speaker D?
a. Know-Nothing
b. Greenback
c. Populist
d. Bull Moose
The correct answer is 2. Populist.
Step-by-step explanation
Populism is a political position that is characterized by seeking and promoting strategies to obtain the support and consent of the popular classes. Also, populism refers to various political, economic, social, and cultural realities, proposals, and strategies, which propose to defend the general interests of society to achieve the common welfare of citizens. Populism is not aligned with any political current, it is not associated with political parties of the right, extreme right, or left, since this is more behavior of the parties than a general policy or idea. According to the foregoing, the proposal of speaker D. Since transportation is a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the public interest, is populist because it proposes a political strategy to defend the general interests of society. So, the correct answer is 2. Populism.